Over use of channels is new Go coder smell. I certainly was guilty at the beginning.

But goroutines? I see much less abuse there. And they're so damn handy.

Goroutines and channels seem comparatively simple compared to the representational symbolic changes involved with generics, which make the code look and read more like Greek. The beauty of Go is (was) largely in its simplicity and python-esque (or maybe better than python) readability.

With generics, reading and reasoning about code becomes [even] more challenging.

Personally for me, at this juncture I'm finding that for new projects I might just as soon spring for Java or maybe even prefer it to Go. For the straightforward mvn-style dependency management, if nothing else.

It's all moot now, though. There's no going back, this puppy is cooked!

I spent 4 months in '21 rewriting a golang backend to properly use channels for concurrency. The previous developers did misuse it and left a steaming pile for me to find.

However contracting pays well, so I don't care.

You might want to reflect on your reasons for jumping ship because your tooling gained a new feature. Sound's rather irrational to me.

It's less that it gained a new feature, and more (the fear at least) that it made a change for the worse.

Avoiding updating to a new version of OSX that stabs you in the face is a reasonable thing to do, despite it being a new feature.

Exactly. I work with rust and ocaml all day long, but reading a Golang codebase in contrast has always been such a pleasure because it’s just so easy to read. I hope generics don’t change that. There was really nothing like Golang out there.

Go already had generic structures anyways. Go maps supported generics. Or did you always use map[interface{}]interface{} everywhere for the purity of your anti-generics position ?

The built-in types that supported generics were limited to the essentials; slices, arrays, maps, etc. Those basic building blocks were obviously sufficient to allow Go to reach the level of success it has. It's not an argument to allow for unlimited generics.

I think this line of reasoning is detrimental for yourself:

- noone is forcing you to use generics in your go programs.

- if you are running outdated OS because you don't like some UX change, you might as well consider changing OS.

It's more about the direction and trajectory, Go used to be fun for me but the appeal has waned.

Sounds like it's just me.